Improved horse-fetter



"tinltefi gratte ,g gmini ARNOLD P. MASON, Oli" GOVVANDA, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO IIIM SELF AND ZALMON HANFORD, OF SAME PLACE.

Lei/ters Patent No. 91,462, dated Jlm'c 15, 1869.

IMPROVE!) HORSE-FETTER.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ARNOLD I. MASON, of Go- Wanda, .in the State of New York, have invented a new and use i'ul Improvement in Horse-Fetters; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description ofthe same, reference being had 'to the accompanying drawings, and letters of reference marked thereon, making a part of this specification, in which is a perspective view.

This invention consists in so connecting the head and hind feet of a horse, that the animal shall not be able to kiek with the latter, or gallop, while, at the y same time, all parts of his body may have proper freei to be held there by a proper arrangement of straps.

From the nose-band a strap, b, called a martingale, passes down between the horses fore legs, and within the belly -girt c, and has a sheave, d, at its'lower end, around which sheave passes a cord, c, the ends of which are led through rings h', attached to 'the lower ends of aui elastic band, h, which runs over the animais rump through a loop in the back-strap.

The extremities of the cord e are fastened in rings fi, projecting from 'crrulcs k on the upper ends of boots I, which encase the animais gambi-el joints.

From the foregoing it is apparent that the horse is prevented, by each hind leg, from striking out with the other, and that, if he undertakes to kick with both hind legs at once, or to gallop, he brings at once a pressure upon his nose, that must immediately cause him to desist. At the same, the arrangement of' the cord e with the pulley d, gives the hind legs all needed freedom of motion when they move in unison at the trotting-gait, without interfering at all with the action of the head.

I am aware that this arrangement of cord and pulley is not new, and that there are several horse-fetters in use, made on somewhat similar principles; but none of these, so far as I know, connects the hind feet with the head of the horse, but always with the fore shoulders or body; nor do any such devices employ boots, suc-h as I have described, as surrounding the gambrel joints, but merely narrow bands; and, so far as I am aware, it is new to use au elastic band to hold up the cord in the manner I have set forth.

fVhat, therefore, I claim as new, and desire to sccure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination of the nose-band a, martingale b, shear al, Cord e, and boots l, as and for the purpose set forth.

ARNOLD P. MASON.

Witnesses C. S. KIMBLE, A. B. Gniswono. 

